How to Shorten a Countdown Video

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Summary: this is a quick tip on how to make a worship countdown video shorter, e.g. taking a 5 or 10 minute countdown and bringing the length down to 3 minutes or 1 minute. It involves starting the video later, or setting the “in” point of the video to a later time

This can be done using just about any worship presentation software, but for demonstration purposes I used Media Shout (MediaShout) and Easy Worship (EasyWorship).

12 Comments on “How to Shorten a Countdown Video”

Jeanne | June 7, 2015:

Any way to do this in ProPresenter 5 or 6? I tried the comment listed above by Sue but it goes back to 5 minutes every time.

This works in Propresenter. If you change the In point on the video when it is in the video bin and before you put it in a presentation, it will remember it. Just Right click on the slide (Ctrl clicl for MAC) choose media properties, and make the In and Out changes on the video displayed there. Close the properties and the changes are applied to the slide, or the video in the video bin.

using media shout, I want to put a countdown screen in my scrolling announcements, but the countdown starts over when the scrolling annc. gets to it. is there a way to keep the countdown, counting as the other announcements scroll through?

I have a buddy that pulled this off, but it’s not possible in Media Shout. He used PPT 2010, inserted the countdown, shrunk it and put it down in the corner, and then kept it running over his announcement slides. He said you can’t use transitions. Sounds tricky. This is a great idea though, I’ll look into it.